Acquired by Private Collector
Vorhang II
There is a crack near the top right where the black paint dried too fast and split open, and through it you can see something paler — something that was there first.
Acquired by Private Collector
There is a crack near the top right where the black paint dried too fast and split open, and through it you can see something paler — something that was there first.
$4,200 — Acquired by Private Collector
Acrylic on canvas, horizontal format, approximately 150 × 90 cm. Dominant palette of Payne's grey, slate green, titanium white, and raw sienna. Non-representational vertical field painting executed through successive squeegee drags. Surface exhibits controlled cracking in areas of dense pigment accumulation in the upper-right quadrant, where drying tension has fractured the acrylic film to reveal underlying layers.
descending, withheld, mineral, heavy
A network of fine cracks runs through the upper-right quadrant where Payne's grey meets lamp black, the acrylic having dried under tension and split open to show paler layers beneath. The entire surface is pulled downward — long vertical drags of muted green, slate grey, and raw sienna descend in uneven curtains, some translucent enough to expose the weave of the canvas underneath. There is no focal point. The eye enters anywhere and falls. Passages of ochre bleed through on the right side, warm against the prevailing coolness, arriving late and without explanation. The left half holds itself in restraint — thinner applications, more air between the strokes, a kind of withholding that makes the dense centre feel heavier by contrast. Nothing is depicted. The painting is entirely about what happens when pigment meets gravity and the hand steps back. What remains is weather on a wall that never existed.
Impasto / Palette Knife on Linen — Painted 2 years ago.
Detail — Impasto / Palette Knife on Linen
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